ACG

My 84 944 suffers from a slight clutch slip when I start driving the car. The slippage goes away after 5 to 10 minues of driving. Otherwise, the car is running smoothly and there are no wierd sounds coming from the tranny area.

I am wondering if the original rubber-donut clutch is worn? Or if I may have an oil leak problem that burns the oil away after a few minutes (making the clutch slip problem disappear)?

Any one have a similar experience with this?

billybones

either way, oil leak or worn clutch same repair.. Oil would be a rear main seal. just after you remove the clutch...

Luis de Prat

Clutch slippage is no fun. At least spring-centered clutches don't fail catastrophically like the rubber-centered. The last clutch (spring-centered) that was put in my 83 recently started slipping after about 70K miles and essentially the car had half the go that it does now with a new SACHS clutch.

Bad thing about rubber-centered clutches is that when they go bad, the car is often undriveable. Like Dwight says, I would schedule a clutch replacement in the near future and be sure to put in a new main seal for another $16 or so.

Good luck with it and sorry to hear, but these things happen eventually!

ACG

Thanks for the help guys!

Yup...it looks like Rosa will have to go to the shop for a clutch job pretty soon...

I was also lucky to have scored a brand new complete spring-centered clutch assembly for $200 a few months ago. Some guy was selling it in the local newsgroup. He bought it at a Porsche dealership, and was going to install it. One day, he parked his car next to a construction site and BOOM......a concrete slab fell on his car! No car....no need for a clutch...and he sold it to me cheap.